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BEIJING (Reuters) - Two former Tibetan political prisoners
who were part of a group known as the "singing nuns" have left
the mountainous Chinese region and gone into exile in India, an
advocacy group said on Wednesday.

Lit by flickering, sallow yak butter candles sits a small picture of a man despised in Beijing as leader of a splittist independence movement but admired by millions for his pacifism -- the Dalai Lama.

By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) - China condemned exiled Tibetans and
international human rights watchdogs on Friday for calling a
Tibetan youth the world's youngest political prisoner, saying
their aim is to push for independence for the Himalayan region.

By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) - A Tibetan youth considered by rights
groups to be the world's youngest political prisoner turns 17
on Tuesday, 11 years after disappearing from public view when
he was named the Himalayan region's second-ranking religious
figure.

By Benjamin Kang Lim HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama,
anointed by China's atheist Communists but not by the Tibet's
Dalai Lama, took center stage at the World Buddhist Forum on
Thursday, defending China's record on religion.

By Lindsay Beck SHIGATSE, China (Reuters) - In the cobbled paths and
ancient courtyards of Tibet's Tashilhunpo monastery, a little
boy stares out of pictures wearing a yellow, cone-shaped hat
that mark his sect of Buddhism.